Talk:History of quaternions

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Hi, I have taken the liberty of copying and pasting some material from Classical_Hamiltonian_Quaternions into this empty space for an article. I don't pretend that this material constitutes any where near what is needed for an in depth article about the history of quaternions, however I do think there is some valuable material here.

I have a suggesting for a description of the article.

It should be a history of the who and when of quaternions. Issues of historical notation and methodology should go into either classical_hamiltonian_quaternions for things written in the notation of 19th century authors, up until 1901, when Hamilton's second and final volume of elements of quaternions was written.

Math and modern quaternions already contains a short history of quaternions.

The material in this article originally started out in that article but it was suggested that the material be split off from the main article.

It still needs a lot of work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hobojaks (talk • contribs) 22:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)